This nice system was built in Japan by EPOCH and sold in europe (mostly and maybe only in France, where it was distributed by the well known pong vendor ITMC) under the YENO brand.

Successor of the Cassette Vision (1981) and Cassette Vision Jr (1983), units that never hit the european market, the Super Cassette Vision system was an unsuccessfull competitor of the Nintendo Famicom in Japan. In France, on the other hand, Yeno had the opportunity to sell a few thousands of units before the beginning of the marketing of the NES.

Built around a Z80 clone, the Super Cassette Vision was a good system, but with only about thirty (although of good quality) games, its sales remainded anecdotic. EPOCH developped many of the available games and later sold a limited Lady edition, bundled with a pink carrying case and the Milky Princess game.

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NAME

Super Cassette Vision

MANUFACTURER

Epoch

ORIGIN

Japan

YEAR

1984

BUILT IN SOFTWARE / GAMES

None

CONTROLLERS

Two joysticks

CPU

PD7801G (Z80 clone)

SPEED

4 MHz

CO-PROCESSOR

PD1771C (Sound generator), EPOCH TV-1 (Video chipset)

RAM

128 Bytes

VRAM

2 KB * 2 + 2 KB + 16 Bytes ?

ROM

4 KB

GRAPHIC MODES

309*246 with up to 128 sprites

COLORS

16 colors

SOUND

One 8-bits channel

I/O PORTS

External PSU, video out (Scart cable)

MEDIA

Cartridges. Some with a small battery-powered persistent memory to save scores and user-built levels (Pop & Chips, Basic, Dragon Slayer)